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Re-printed by EnergyBulletin, this article offers perspective on how cutting funding for energy efficiency programs certainly costs governments more money, and costs everyone in other ways. Conservation is an essential means of addressing our precarious energy, and related environmental, situation. It offers flexibility in energy planning through relieving the burden of supply crunches that are facing jurisdictions everywhere already, oil and gas aside.

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President George Bush, facing a summer of revolt from a nation that believes
fiercely in its right to affordable petrol, yesterday unveiled plans to try
to stop a rapid rise in prices at the pump.

From The Guardian, April 26 2006